Sinks and Taps: The Hardest-Working Choice in the Kitchen

Count the times a day your household touches the sink, then compare it with the oven. Now compare the two budgets. The sink is the most-used object in the kitchen and routinely the last thing chosen, from whatever the contractor has in stock. It deserves fifteen honest minutes.

Undermount, top-mount or integrated

Top-mount drops into the worktop with a visible rim. It is cheap, it fits any surface, and that rim collects everything you wipe toward it.

Undermount fixes beneath the worktop, so the surface runs unbroken to the sink’s edge and crumbs sweep straight in. It is the obvious choice — with one condition: it needs a non-porous worktop with a properly sealed cut-out, which means quartz or sintered stone rather than an unsealed natural granite.

Integrated — sink and worktop in one material, no joint at all — is the quiet luxury version, and prices accordingly.

Steel or composite

Stainless steel is still the right answer for most Indian kitchens: it is unkillable, it takes a hot vessel straight off the flame, and a brushed or linen finish hides the scratches that a mirror finish advertises. Ask about the gauge and the sound-deadening pads underneath — a thin bowl in a quiet, open-plan kitchen is a genuinely annoying object.

Granite composite trades a little heat tolerance for colour, warmth and a much quieter bowl. In hard water it wants drying after use; in soft water it is faultless.

Size it for your biggest vessel, not your average one

A single large bowl beats a divided double in almost every Indian kitchen, because the thing that decides the sink is the largest kadhai or pressure cooker you own — it must lie flat under the tap. If two bowls are wanted, a large-plus-small arrangement is more useful than two equal halves. Depth of 200–220 mm contains splashing without making you stoop.

Then the tap. A pull-out spray is the single upgrade that changes daily life most, because filling a pot at the back of the sink and rinsing the bowl both stop being a nuisance. Check the spout’s reach and swivel against the bowl you’ve chosen — and in hard-water cities, prefer a finish and aerator you can actually descale, the same discipline every appliance here needs.

Run water through it first

Reginox’s sinks and taps sit in our catalog with prices published like everything else, so the comparison is a real one rather than a quotation.

Better still, come and use them. In our showrooms the sinks are plumbed and running — put your own biggest vessel under the tap, and you will know inside a minute.